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A Study On The Construction Of Rural Culture In Northwest China From The Perspective Of Field-Habitus

Posted on:2020-02-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y M DuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330596472695Subject:Sociology
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The ultimate effect of rural cultural construction is to realize that the main body of production and life in rural areas actively participate in cultural practice activities,and build rural society into a harmonious,happy,stable and orderly life home.The content of cultural practice activities can be rich and colorful,but the connotation of cultural practice must represent the requirements of the cultural development of the new socialist countryside.The construction of rural culture has been an old topic both in academia and in national policy research.While the construction of rural culture has achieved remarkable results,it also faces new problems with the development of rural economy and society.The analysis of the causes of the problems in the development of rural culture in academia mostly focuses on the macro and micro levels,the traditional and modern turn,and the spiritual and material relationship.The specific measures and suggestions for rural cultural construction are also combined with the analysis of the reasons in these three directions,so they have achieved remarkable results.However,the effectiveness of rural cultural construction is still controversial.With the continuous changes of rural society and economy,the academic discussion on rural cultural development and construction has not decreased.This paper holds that the premise of rural cultural construction must be to "take the pulse" of rural culture,that is,to accurately present the internal operation logic and explicit cultural practice of the current rural culture.This means that the concept of "culture" is an abstract and complex concept.What kind of "prism" can reflect the sense of hierarchy and expose it? How to explain how "these different levels of combination" are organically organized together to form a stable cultural operation system in the dynamic? This is the two problems that need to be solved in this paper.First,we need to find a suitable "prism" to expose the abstract concept of "culture" as a specific cultural practice.Second,we need to find a "methodology" to explain the relationship structure behind the cultural appearance.Rural culture is rich in content and diverse in practice.Therefore,when examining rural culture and selecting specific cultural practice activities,the author needs to consider the following three conditions: first,breadth,reflecting the participation and basic coverage of the main body of rural life.If a rural cultural practice activity is only a small group of people’s practice activities,it reflects the attributes of rural culture,but more precisely in a certain period of time should belong to the "sub-culture" category of rural culture,and does not have the typical qualifications to represent the current rural culture.Secondly,the depth is embodied in the "local flavor",which is generated in rural society or rooted in the soil of rural society by evolution and change,and positively affects the production and life practice activities of rural social practice subjects.Thirdly,span is embodied in cultural vitality,that is,from the latitude of time,engraved in the life memory of rural life subjects from generation to generation,it still bears the overall memory of rural society and has the value of "historical living fossil".Despite the change of years,it still radiates the vitality of the times.These three conditions reflect three characteristics of cultural connotation: first,culture is the value consensus within the group,reflecting its belief.Secondly,the normative value orientation and the substantive nature of cultural exhibition specifically reflect the behavior characteristics and thinking mode of the actors.Thirdly,the historical inheritance of culture and the inertia of its own operation.Based on this,this paper chooses the traditional rural cultural practice of rural social fire performance as a tool to inspect the rural cultural aggregation-the "prism".Social fire has a long history,which contains the belief characteristics of religious sacrifice.At the same time,it can organize and mobilize all members of rural society,and standardize and guide the production and life activities of actors.This study holds that in the performance activities of social fire culture,there are three kinds of actors,namely,organizers,village leaders and villagers,participating in social fire activities in the cultural field.On the surface,they are pursuing the same traditional "cultural symbol capital" together,that is,they hope to get the refuge of God through social fire worship.However,when different actors enter the field to participate in the game,the amount and structure of capital they carry are different.Faced with the combined effect of political field and economic field and the structural change of cultural field,the habits of all actors are also changing quietly,and there is a phenomenon of "out of step" with the field,that is,the practice activities of actors are contrary to their declared beliefs.The direct cause of this phenomenon is the adjustment of the practice strategy of the actors in the process of the alternation of the old and new habits.The fundamental reason is that after the change of field,the actors redefine and chase the capital they need in the new field.Therefore,it is necessary for the state to intervene in the construction of rural culture through the intermediary of cultural field,redefine the legal definition of "cultural symbols" in rural areas,respect the independence of cultural field itself,abandon its rules of game in power field,enter cultural field according to the logic of "game" in cultural field,and participate in cultural practice activities,that is,it is possible to realize agriculture.The ultimate goal of village culture construction.
Keywords/Search Tags:social fire, field, habits, capital, rural cultural construction
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